And I will give you another Comforter
L M Leteane | Friday October 17, 2014 15:00
This week’s key word is ‘comfort’, a term borrowed from the Latin con-fort(is): ‘to make [one] strong’ (Britain was under Roman conquest for centuries). The con/com difference is easily reconciled through proto-Tswana: ko n’ (Latin) and ko m’ (English) both mean ‘to [do something to] me’, as in go (ko) mpitsa (to call me) and go (ko) nkaketsa (to lie to me).
What about fort? Just as Setswana grammar tells us where to append m or n to a verb (e.g. there is no “npitsa” or “mkaketsa”), we all know that the noun of the verb feta (pass) is pheto (a passing), and the noun of fologa (descend) is phologo (descent). Out of the over 400 proto-terms now populating my ever-expanding Dictionary of Protolanguage Terms, I discovered that many Setswana words have kept the noun but not the verb. Thus, we have phorogoto (adjective/noun, meaning ‘[something of] strength’; note: the pronunciation tl instead of t came later; I have the little-known history) but we do not have forogota (verb: ‘strengthen’). ‘Fort’ and ‘forogota’, nevertheless, are demonstrable protolanguage cognates.
A Comforter, then, is someone or something that strengthens (fortifies) one when that person is saddened, hopeless or forsaken. If ever there is a title that Muslims and the Baha’i vie vigorously for, it is that of ‘another Comforter’ – the enigmatic Entity that Jesus said he will send to his followers, and who will be with them forever. (John 14:15-17) Muslims say it refers to the prophet Mohammed. Baha’is insist that it refers to Baha’u’llah. Christians maintain that it refers solely to the Holy Ghost. In any case, if the Comforter referred to a physical being, why would that Person be with us forever whereas all the contenders have actually died? Indeed, Jesus himself clarified that the world cannot know or behold Him because He abides within.
Who is the real Comforter? Although not knowing how, Christians are correct: it refers exclusively to the Holy Ghost. In reality, this is not some ill-defined, nebulous Force as currently understood, but the Astral Form (Heavenly Body) of a Saviour, Who can only be understood from an ‘occult’, Gnostic perspective. What Jesus meant was that even if his physical body will have left the earthly plane of existence, an initiated disciple (chela) is guaranteed to one day have darshan (sight of this Radiant Form). He is the one who stays with, guides the chela, through the Seven Heavens that lead to the Father – even if, in Earth time, centuries have passed and people have lived and died. The day one attains darshan is a great day for which the chela prepares rigorously. The chela does not know when He will appear and pull the chela through the Third Eye – the now-opened Door to Heaven – and into the Astral Plane, the first Heaven.
Why should the Saviour’s Holy Ghost come like ‘a thief in the night’ (Luke 12:39-40)…with absolutely no warning to the chela? In the Astral Plane, one’s inner thoughts, moods, and overall spiritual state are discernible through the colour of one’s aura as it radiates out of the head. Communications is by direct (‘psychic’) transfer of thought. A typical Earthly person’s aura is too filthy and embarrassing to be displayed in the First Heaven. He will be totally traumatised when he compares it with the denizens of that plane. So, the Master asks one to clean one’s thoughts first by meditating daily on his secret name, which he gives the chela to repeat (a practice called simran), and only He will know when the chela can face up to the Holy Ghost, Who patiently awaits within. This is the secret that only Gnostics know.
So, the meditation of a chela is like a man knocking incessantly at The Door…waiting for the Master to open it. When that Single Eye is opened, the whole body is flooded with Light. (Matthew 6:22) All this is a far cry from the mission of a prophet. Most people think that a prophet is anyone who can prophesy; who can (rightly or wrongly) ‘see’ into the future. In proper biblical terms, a prophet is a person whose coming is first prophesied by an authoritative source – namely the God of Israel himself. As such, after the time of Jesus, there were only two genuine prophets: Mohammed and Baha’u’llah. Their coming followed an orderly 1260-year cycle I have strenuously explained in many prior articles.
Prophet Mohammed’s 1260-year legacy took us to the ‘ends-of-days’ – 1844 – and his identifying mark was to be found in Deuteronomy 18:18 when the God of Israel said “I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and I will put my words in his mouth and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him”. Indeed, the prophet only repeated what the Angel Gabriel asked him to. Another pointer is in Isaiah 29:12: ‘and the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying ‘read this, I pray thee’ and he saith, ‘I am not learned’. This is exactly the words the Prophet used when asked to repeat the first Sura he was to utter. Bahaullah’s coming was to be post-1844; in the ‘End-days’ themselves. Last week, we revealed both his identifying marks and how he was to be the culmination of all the religious expectations about the return of a Great Teacher who ‘God will make manifest’.
Jesus knew all about such ‘prophetic’ intents as elucidated in the ‘sealed’ Book of Daniel (see also Isaiah 29:11). That is why he reiterated the external signs of his prophesied return but warned that he will not come at such an appointed time but internally, as a thief in the night, for the Kingdom of Heaven is not external. –Luke 17:20-21. If ever there was ‘another comforter’ in the physical form, it was his successor James the Just. Next week, we see exactly why he and John of Pathmos were definite Gnostics.
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